Dr. Mark Thurner
Professor of Latin American History, Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London.
e-mail: mark.thurner@sas.ac.uk
Some recent publications
- Thurner, M. (2012).
History’s Peru: The Poetics of Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography. University Press of Florida.
- Thurner, M. & Guerrero, A., eds. (2003).
After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Duke University Press.
- Thurner, M. (1997).
From Two Republics to One Divided: Contradictions of Postcolonial Nationmaking in Andean Peru. Duke University Press.
Texts to download
- Thurner, M. (2009).
“The Founding Abyss of Colonial History or ‘The Origin and Principle of the Name of Peru’”. History and Theory, vol. 48, pp. 44-62.
- Thurner, M. (2009).
“The As-If of the Book of Kings: Pedro de Peralta Barnuevo’s Colonial Poetics of History”. Latin American Research Review, vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 32-57.
- Thurner, M. (2008).
“Jorge Basadre’s ‘Peruvian History of Peru’, or the Poetic Aporia of Historicism”. Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 2, pp. 247-283.
- Thurner, M. (2006).
“After colonialism and the king: notes on the Peruvian birth of ‘contemporary history’”. Postcolonial Studies, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 393-420.
- Thurner, M. (1997).
“Atusparia and Caceres: Rereading Representations of Peru’s Late Nineteenth-Century ‘National Problem’”. The Hispanic American Historical Review, vol. 77, no. 3, pp. 409-441.
- Thurner, M. (1995).
“‘Republicanos’ and ‘La Comunidad de Peruanos’: Unimagined Political Communities in Postcolonial Andean Peru”. Journal of Latin American Studies, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 291-318.